%0 Journal Article %T Spectroscopic and Mechanical Studies on the Fe-based Amorphous Alloy 2605SA1 %A Cabral-Prieto %A Agust¨ªn %A Contreras-Vite %A Juan Antonio %A Garc¨ªa-Sosa %A Irma %A Nava %A Noel %A Garc¨ªa-Santib¨¢£¿ez %A Federico %J Journal of the Mexican Chemical Society %D 2010 %I Sociedad Qu¨ªmica de M¨¦xico %X the vickers micro-hardness of this alloy was unusually dependent on the heat treatment from 300 to 634k, inferring important micro-structural changes and the presence of amorphous grains before its phase transition. once the alloy is crystallized, the micro-hardness is characteristic of a brittle alloy, the main problem of these alloys. within the amorphous state, other properties like free-volume, magnetic states and fe-fe distances were followed by pals and ms, respectively, to analyze those micro-structural changes, thermally induced, which are of paramount interest to understand their brittleness problem. %K amorphous alloys %K m£¿ssbauer spectroscopy %K annihilation of positrons %K free-volume %K defects %K micro hardness %K brittleness. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1870-249X2010000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en